{"id":58093,"date":"2019-06-23T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=58093"},"modified":"2019-06-23T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:11:49","slug":"the-baby-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-baby-pigeon\/","title":{"rendered":"The baby pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One fine morning as I stood in balcony<\/p>\n<p>To breathe in the air freshy<\/p>\n<p>My eyes caught sight of<\/p>\n<p>A pigeon grey-black on the corner pot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As our sights held each other together<\/p>\n<p>She hastly ran and took on flight.<\/p>\n<p>This was what everyday happened<\/p>\n<p>Between me and her for a day or two more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally one morning, as usual<\/p>\n<p>I stood in the balcony<\/p>\n<p>And she flew off slowly<\/p>\n<p>Leaving behind her pair of\u00a0 li&#8217;l egg twinkle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This wrote a new chapter in my life<\/p>\n<p>Of expectant pigeon&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>In a fortnight, I was blessed<\/p>\n<p>With two little angels yellow-brown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instilling new hopes in my soul<\/p>\n<p>As I saw her nurture her kids<\/p>\n<p>Putting little in their mouth, food<\/p>\n<p>And warming her under her feather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On one night windy<\/p>\n<p>Rain was lashing badly<\/p>\n<p>Pouring all drops in her pot<\/p>\n<p>So I shaded her house with asbestos sheet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Slowly they shed their yellow-brown hair<\/p>\n<p>To put on grey-black feather<\/p>\n<p>And then they spread their wings<\/p>\n<p>Practicing to fly within the premises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time I saw them dozing<\/p>\n<p>And thought they might have fallen sick<\/p>\n<p>When one fine day they took their maiden trip<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying the freedom to flip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Off and on now they visited my hearth<\/p>\n<p>Only to have the grains I spread<\/p>\n<p>But by a months time they gained strength<\/p>\n<p>And flew off in the world so wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One fine morning as I stood in balcony To breathe in the air freshy My eyes caught sight of A pigeon grey-black on the corner pot. &nbsp; As our sights held each other together She hastly ran and took on flight. This was what everyday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1314,"featured_media":58096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3392],"class_list":["post-58093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-quadrainpoetry-marathonvarsha-madhulika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58097,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58093\/revisions\/58097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}